'So good, so strong, so accomplished, so emotionally powerful . . . Perhaps it will be the one that will win Louisa one of the major literary prizes which is her due - it demands that level of acclaim. . . . Beautifully drawn vivid characters, each of whom the reader cares about immensely - floors you - had me in floods of tears - absolutely worthwhile' Open Book, BBC Radio 4,

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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

was the London Cityread for 2014, alongside Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful, with a full schedule of film, dinner, readings, library appearances, theatre and talks. Louisa Young spoke at the Royal Society of Literature on March 1 with Sebastian Faulkes, Tobias Hill and Timberlake Wertenbaker, discussing the literature of WW1; at the British Library on April 14 with Kirsty Lang, and at the National Portrait Gallery on May 15 discussing maxillofacial reconstruction with Iain Hutchinson.

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LIONBOY

by Louisa (and her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young)'s alter ego Zizou Corder, toured the UK in summer 2013, in a production by the internationally acclaimed award-winning all-round fabulous theatre companyComplicite. Directed by company co-founder Annabel Arden and starring Adetomiwa Edun as Charlie.**** Michael Billington, The Guardian. It was revived in London at the Tricycle theatre in December 2014, starring Marins Isoken, then at the New Victory Theatre in New York in early 2015 before a World Tour including Hong Kong, South Korea, and South Africa.

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'She Wiped the Surface and Put the Kettle On', by Louisa Young, was beautifully read on BBC Radio Four by Emma Fielding, on November 9 2012, as part of Friday Firsts, a new series of short stories

Read an interview with Louisa Young from The Times, March 17 2011. See a short film here, one of a beautiful series by Barry J Gibb of the Wellcome Trust, about science and the arts: this one is about novels. Watch a film about the book here. Hear a podcast interview: on Johnny Cash, the history of maxillofacial surgery, love and WW1 . . . Louisa talks about the book here. In the US? Buy the book here. Hear Louisa interviewed by Kirsty Lang on Front Row - Radio Four - here. See what Waterstones' booksellers think of it here. Read a review in The Independenthere. Listen to Louisa on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Bookclub here. Read here Louisa's article in the Independent on one of the best books about WW1. Listen to Andrew Motion, Claire Armitstead and Louisa Young discussing WW1 poetry here.